Irvin De La Paz – Mechanical Engineering Academic Projects

Monitor Motion Mechanism

by Irvin De La Paz on 10/11/09 at 11:02 am

Brief Summary

What fun times I had in my undergrad class of  kinematics design!  As a final assignment, the professor(Dr. Yi Jia)  gave us a project in which we had to design and build a prototype for a monitor motion mechanism.  This project was  for the desk he had in his office. I paired with partner and friend, Eng. Francisco Torres to create this project. Looking back we should have taken photos of our working prototype (what a shame !). We were tight on budget (been students) and made the prototype out of wood and aluminum. We use a door hinge as the pivot point. The project duration was about 2 days. Because the calculations an drawings were made on writing, most of the calculations and drawings are missing from the digital file.  In the analysis an idealization was made to model the dynamic system. One can model the system using 4 members, the cad file showed only 4 members. In the prototype  we had actually 8 members, 4 members on one side, 4 members on the opposite bar and the monitor based which joins  the 4 member.

Special thanks to  Eng. Eduardo Rodriguez who also contributed in this project.

You can download the  project Kinematic Design here (pdf)

Problem Statement

Desk with 4 bar link only